Chameleon: The Michigan Plot
Audiochuck | Campside Media
4.5from 10,408 ratings
- 142
- Episodes
- 75
- Transcribed
- 10,408
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Chameleon: The Michigan Plot
We are living in a golden age of deception. It feels like everyone has an angle and that, everywhere you turn, someone’s trying to scam you. Chameleon is a new weekly show from veteran journalist Josh Dean (co-creator and host of The Clearing, Hooked, White Devil, and the original Chameleon season, Hollywood Con Queen) that takes you inside an incredible, stranger-than-fiction story about someone—or some people—pretending to be something they aren’t. Are you obsessed with cons, frauds, and impostors? Then this is the podcast for you. Get your new weekly true crime obsession every Thursday from Campside Media and Audiochuck.
- Publisher
- Audiochuck | Campside Media
- Category
- society & culture · true crime · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 17 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
75 of 142 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Four Mrs Wilsons: The Spy Thriller Author with a Real Life to Match
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
REVISITED: The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A View To Deceive: An Artist Goes Undercover To Expose The Uber Rich
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The Four Mrs Wilsons: The Spy Thriller Author with a Real Life to Match
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Without a steady source of income, Alison and Alexander struggled to make ends meet. Throughout his life, Alexander Wilson was prosecuted several times for petty crime and even spent some time in prison. He was homeless for periods, too. I have this image of Alexander Wilson as a scurrilous, buccaneering ladies' man with barely a shred of morals. keeping the many plates of his life spinning through a mix of charm and luck and deception. But the reality seems more complicated. For instance, his children love their father. Alexander Wilson did everything he could for all of his children, enormously generous, introduced them in terms of helping with their careers. […]
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